Intimacy in America : dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature /

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Reading seminal works by Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman, Peter Coviello traces these writers' ambivalences about the idea of an intimate nationality, revealing how race and sexuality were used as vehicles for an assumed coherence. Int...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coviello, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.
Temas:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
Difference (Philosophy) in literature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Intimité dans la littérature.
Américains dans la littérature.
Psychologie différentielle dans la littérature.
Relations humaines dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Verwantschap.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : "What is it then between us?"
  • Intimate property : race and the civics of self-relation
  • The melancholy of little girls : Poe, pedophilia, and the logic of slavery
  • Bowels and fear : nationalism, sodomy, and whiteness in Moby-Dick
  • Loving strangers : intimacy and nationality in Whitman
  • Epilogue : nation mourns.

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